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On Fri, 3 May 1996, Mark Lehrer wrote: > of course, the best thing would be to finally have a standard > non-case-sensitive file system on unix. preservation of case > is important, but being case-sensitive when looking up a file > is a serious time waster. Oh, I disagree. Having the fs be sensitive (to the fault you describe) to cases gives me double the filename possibilities. Additionally, if there are 3 files in a directory that begin with the letter "M," and the filesystem is not case sensitive in that way, example: Makefile memlook.c makelib.sh I can just type M<tab> and get the Makefile right now. The situation you describe makes that impossible. If you don't use filename completion or wildcards, then yes, you're wasting time--just don't blame it on the system. Capitals exist for a reason in Linux. Justin Dossey dossey@flex.net houston, tx usa http://www.flex.net/~dossey | ||||||||||||
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